51 Quotes by Minor White

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.